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steveklabnik on Dec 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: SQL is Agile

> DRY is "Don't Repeat Yourself", not "Don't Repeat Ever".

It's actually "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system."

(this advances your point even further)

jl6 on Dec 29, 2012 [–]

And makes clear that DRY is just a handy catchphrase for the design principle of normalization.

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